"The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep," Obama cautioned. Young and charismatic but with little experience on the national level, Obama smashed through racial barriers and easily defeated ...

what they voted for...more cope and cringe.the laws mandatory benefits package and its billions in new taxes on insurers will drive up costs enough that overall premiums for a family of five will start at $20,000 (before subsidies, if any). Oh  and that doesnt count the penalty for each smoker, roughly $3,000 a head.(Subsidies may help some people cover sky-high premiums, though not the smoking penalty  but the letter of the law makes those subsidies unavailable in many states. The federal courts will eventually decide the issue.)Many workers in industries such as retail, hospitality and home care will lose on-the-job health coverage, forecasts the ADP Research Institute  and many will also be demoted to part-time status because of ObamaCare.Why? The presidents health law mandates that all employers with 50 or more full-time workers provide its essential benefit package if they offer insurance  and that package costs about twice what these industries now offer.Many employers will drop coverage, and pay the (smaller) fine; others will try to avoid that 50-employee limit by using more people part-time.Even the governments actuaries admit fewer people will get coverage at work after the employer mandate goes into effect than if the law had not passed.Read more: Disaster for Dems - NYPOST.comhttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolu...

The real screaming and yelling will start mid-summer leading to mind numbing screeching by Christmas early 2014.

<quoted text>if you make more than $50K a year you don't get the 'tax credit'.the wealthy will pay the annual fine and use concierge style doctors. the rest of us will be waiting longer for fewer available doctors.

Actually it stops at $92,000 something, family of 4. It was in the article I posted early this morning.

<quoted text> Look it's really simple math and I really don't care to argue with you about it. If I have a labor cost of $35 an hour for my 3 employees and the minimum wage goes up $2.85 1 person is getting laid off. No way around it. Simple math.Raising the minimum wage is about two things. Union wages and increased taxes.

You just proved why I know you never ever ran a successful business with employees.

Was that $35 total for 3 employees. Wow you are a cheap ass.

Or was it $35 per employee and an increase of 8% forces you to cut production/customer service by 33%. If you didn't need that third person, you shouldn't have hired them.

You do know how Republicans handled the need to people to make more money? Earned income tax credits. They subsidized businesses that pay minimum wage through YOUR tax dollars.

Just like you want to continue to subsidize these companies by allowing them to pay less & less & have the government chip in with their various programs because their employees still qualify for government benefits.

The buying power of the minimum wage has fallen below inflation & far below production value.

This is made p through government programs & through higher insurance premiums when these people with no insurance get treatment.

another example of how far gone they are...TN lawmakers confuse mop sink for Muslim foot-washing sinkRepublican Sen. Bill Ketron, R-Murfreesboro, confirmed that he had spoken to Humphrey about whether there were religious reasons for the new sink after the issue was raised by Rep. Judd Matheny, R-Tullahoma.http://www.tennessean.com/viewart/20130325/NE...

They sure know how to grow 'em in TN:

State residents who have high medical bills but would not normally qualify for Medicaid, the government health care program for the poor, can call a state phone line and request an application. But the window is tightthe line shuts down after 2,500 calls, typically within an hourand the demand is so high that it is difficult to get through.[...]

Its like the Oklahoma land rush for an hour, said Russell Overby, a lawyer with the Legal Aid Society in Nashville.We encourage people to use multiple phones and to dial and dial and dial.

The phone lines are open only for a few hours, twice a year, which obviously doesn't meet the demand in the state. If the state participated in Obamacare's Medicaid expansion, an additional 180,000 people could be covered in TennCare, according to the state's own estimates. But for now, those people have no other hope than the twice-early chance of hitting the dial-in lottery.

The amendment, like the entire bill, isn't binding. But it is a statement from the whole Senate, and particularly the core group of liberal sponsors, that the president's offer of using Social Security and veterans benefits cuts to cut a grand bargain deal is not acceptable to them. According to Sanders, a typical 65-year-old retiree would lose more than $650 a year by their 75th birthday and more than $1,000 a year by their 85th under the chained CPI. It would also cut the benefits of more than 3.2 million disabled veterans receiving disability benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs, and more than 350,000 surviving spouses and children. Send an email to the White House telling President Obama to give up the chained CPI cuts to Social Security and veterans.

<quoted text>You just proved why I know you never ever ran a successful business with employees.Was that $35 total for 3 employees. Wow you are a cheap ass.Or was it $35 per employee and an increase of 8% forces you to cut production/customer service by 33%. If you didn't need that third person, you shouldn't have hired them.You do know how Republicans handled the need to people to make more money? Earned income tax credits. They subsidized businesses that pay minimum wage through YOUR tax dollars.Just like you want to continue to subsidize these companies by allowing them to pay less & less & have the government chip in with their various programs because their employees still qualify for government benefits.The buying power of the minimum wage has fallen below inflation & far below production value.This is made p through government programs & through higher insurance premiums when these people with no insurance get treatment.

If it was $35 per employee they wouldn't be making minimum wage idiot!! Actually it should have read $30 for 3 employees. You people are mental midgets.

I wonder why this rightwhiners refuse to accept defeat, is it may be because they know they have made fatal mistakes when bush took us to war with lies ? or because most americans know they're nothing but clowns? Oh that's right , because of both.

10-year-old North Carolina boy was shot and killed on Sunday evening when his fathers shotgun discharged as he sat in his living room cleaning the weapon.

The child, Christopher Stanlane, Jr., was hit by the round squarely in the head and killed instantly, police told a reporter for WPDE-TV.

He was pretty careful with [the gun], the boys uncle, Robert Simmons, said in a report aired Monday night.I dont think he meant to hold it in that direction, but the way he was cleaning it, I guess he didnt pay no attention to it and held it that way. There must have been a bullet lodged in the chamber and it fired.

He added that Stanlane was a good kid who loved Call of Duty and riding four-wheelers, calling his death an unbelievable tragedy.

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